Saturday’s New York Times features a front-page editorial — the paper’s first since 1920 — calling for increased U.S. regulation of guns in the wake of a nationwide rash of mass shootings.

The editorial, headlined “The Gun Epidemic,” calls for a drastic reduction in the number of firearms legally available to U.S. citizens and “eliminating some large categories of weapons and ammunition.”

“​It is a moral outrage and national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency,” the editorial board wrote.

The paper decided to break its decades-old practice of keeping the front page free of editorials “to deliver a strong and visible statement of frustration and anguish about our country’s inability to come to terms with the scourge of guns,” Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said in a statement.

The paper’s bold move follows intensified debate over gun violence in the U.S. in the wake of the deadly assault on Wednesday at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, that killed 14 people and injured 21 others.

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted down a proposed bill that would bar suspected terrorists, felons and the mentally ill from legally obtaining firearms.

The New York Daily News has run two consecutive front covers advocating for increased gun control measures, including one on Friday that labelled NRA boss Wayne LaPierre a “terrorist.”

The Times last published a Page 1 editorial in June 1920, according to the Times. That commentary piece decried Warren G. Harding’s nomination as the Republican presidential candidate.

Mass Shootings in America That Horrified All of Us (Photos)

Newtown, Conn. - On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. They were between the ages of six and seven years old. He also killed six adult staff members.

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Washington D.C. — A former Navy reservist shot and killed 12 people on September 16, 2013, at a military facility. The gunman was killed.

Waco, Tex. - Nine people were killed and many more were injured after two biker gangs began firing at each other at a motorcycle club on May 17, 2015.

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Charleston, S.C. - Dylann Roof shot and killed nine people during a racially motivated shooting in a predominantly African-American church on June 17, 2015.

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Chattanooga, Tenn. - A gunman named Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez entered two military facilities on July 16, 2015, and killed four Marines and injured others, before he was killed.

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Umpqua, Ore. - On October 1, 2015, Chris Harper Mercer killed nine people and injured seven to nine more at Umpqua Community College before two police officers shot him. Mercer then committed suicide.

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San Bernardino, Calif. - 14 people were killed and another 21 injured after Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened fire during a holiday party on December 2, 2015. The pair were later killed during a shootout with police.

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Orlando, Fla. - 50 people were killed and 53 wounded on June 11, 2016, at Pulse, a gay nightclub. Just before the shooting, suspected killer Omar Mateen called 911 and pledged his allegiance to the terror group ISIS. Mateen was also shot an killed by police on the scene.

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TheWrap looks back at recent mass shootings that have happened on U.S. soil

Newtown, Conn. - On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. They were between the ages of six and seven years old. He also killed six adult staff members.